McDermott Will & Schulte Announces 2026 AI Strategy Overhaul with Mandatory Certification Academy
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CKO Hunter Jackson announced a shift from tool rollouts to a planned 9-12 week mandatory AI certification academy covering prompt engineering and practice-specific use, ending in a tool-idea pitch contest, with rollout across the firm's 1,700 lawyers targeted for 2026. Jackson said the shift was partly delayed by integration friction from the Schulte Roth & Zabel merger's older ChatGPT stack.
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